The rediscovery of arts and crafts Historical categories and critical classifications - especially those regarding the heroic period of modernism - are losing their meaning in this end of the century (or end of the millennium). What seems to finally be em

erging in an awareness that rather than technologies, industrial processes or sociological conditioning, it is an autonomous design culture that determines the forms of objects.

It is necessary to act, as designers and as manufacturers, outside

of any predeterminated schemes; the only constraints are function, economy, beauty.Don't be fooled by the variety of forms and connotations of the objects produced by Olivari.

These products are the result of meticulous research, of deci

sions pondered and discussed at length.

The main concern of the company and of the designers called upon to participate is not the sterile pursuit ofnovelty for its own sake. It is to discover, through persistant study, new paths for the relat

ionship between man and architecture, even in the simple interface of hand and handle: our small, humble, indispensable everyday sculpture.